Captain Roger Pocock is a curious mixture of qualitie human
and superhuman, and a varied series of adventurous events has followed him through life. Thus, this second instalment of his autobiography, Chorus to Adventurers (Lam 12s. is of many ingredients curiously mixed. From it we learn about ' the constituents and aims of the Legionof Frontiersmen, of which he was the founder. We hear something about life in Greenland and bird-work in Spitsbergen, of travel in the Rockies and of the vicissitudes of the North Sea &hot
fleets, and we have the author's experiences in the War, principally with the Labour Corps, for seven months in the Salient. Of all his adventures the most " joyous " (his own word) was his exploration of what he calls " the Wonder- land of the Mind." Captain Pocock is a mystic gifted with marked powers of prevision. Meditation and prayer can fore- stall danger and avert it ; he has proved this and he knows. He has even (one would speak with reverence) " gazed with mortal eyes upon the Heights Celestial."
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